I'll come out of the closet to say I've been very blocked in regards to blogging; I could blame the tech side, but realise there have been subtler energies at play ~ namely the urge to remain wrapped in a cloak of invisibility.

Though I'm only just beginning to get to grips with this blog, something's called me to start a new one as well. Unlike small tales, which I somewhat rashly committed to posting every new moon, my only promise for the Book of Answers is to publish it erratically.

This'll be an I Ching-focussed collection; in case you've landed on here with no intro, the I Ching, also known as theBook of Changes orZhouyiis a venerable oracle which which I'm creating a body of work around, and which has been guiding me for many decades now.

My idea is to gradually build up a searchable body of answers from the Zhouyi to questions or dilemmas put to it: though my experience is that asking a meaningful question of the Oracle can be a more direct path to understanding than reading about it, seeing what response others have been given to their questions can begin to give us a real sense of how this mysterious world operates.

We two-legged beings are all born and die and, in between, navigate our own unfolding and relations with the wider world. Though the specific intricacies of our individual experience are unique, we can all find parts of ourselves in the lives of others.

As well as providing a resource for people interested in having a conversation with the Book of Changes, my hope is these answers help those who originally asked them; to provide help to those who called for it.

(the Book of Answers blog is here, with this post as an intro. Scroll down & you'll find the first answer, Fear of Loss.)